Stories

Did you know that New Relic Has deployment tracking? All you do is modify your capistrano task to let new relic know when you do a deployment. Then when you view you stats on new relic after the deployment, you'll actually see a line on each of your new relic graphs so you'll be able to see how performance was affected. Check out the video over on NewRelic.com to learn more.

There is a new release of Refinery, the rails-based content management system. This release has been updated to use Rails 3, the architecture has been changed to use rails engines internally, a bunch of bugs have been fixed, and the file upload plugin moved from attachment_fu to Dragonfly.

During Construction is a hosted 'coming soon' page that looks a lot better than the default one the registrars give you, and it has a couple of nice features like a countdown timer, and an email collector.

Inploy is a new deployment tool on the Ruby scene, and Thomas Ritz wrote a deployment template that makes Rails3 deployments easy. Diego Carrion wrote this article showing how, and it looks super-simple. Go Diego, Go!

Cached commons is a collection of user-contributed javascript libraries that have been optimized, compressed, and cached on github's fast content delivery network. It also has a really nice index, and links to the home page and docs for each library.

Previous Episodes

Rails 3 has been released, memcached received a new Ruby library, and RubyDoc.info is in your RubyGems generating your YARD docs. Also, API versioning, extended transaction support, tutorials and more are on this episode of Ruby5.

We quickly mention a bunch of results of WhyDay, including releases of Shoes, Hackety Hack, Camping, Kext, and code golf in Ruby, as well as our standard fare of interesting projects like Rid, MongoMatic, a blog post on writing your own daemons in Ruby, an IRC bot framework, Swimlanes (a git visualization tool from Jim Weirich), and of course, the Ruby 1.9.2 release.